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Free Download China Incorporated
by Brown, Kerry;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350267244 | 209 pages | True PDF EPUB | 5.32 MB
Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace ours?

Free Download Animal Suffering
by Florence Burgat, Emilie Dardenne
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1789451213 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 6.55 MB
This interdisciplinary volume deals with the most painful situations encountered by animals in the wild or under human guardianship. It seeks to illustrate some remarkable cases and present a general picture of the commodification of animals.

Free Download Algorithms; Technology, Culture, Politics; 1
by Matzner Tobias
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032290595 | 193 pages | True PDF | 7.33 MB
Technology, Culture, Politics develops a relational, situated approach to algorithms. It takes a middle ground between theories that give the algorithm a singular and stable meaning in using it as a central analytic category for contemporary society and theories that dissolve the term into the details of empirical studies. The book discusses algorithms in relation to hardware and material conditions, code, data, and subjects such as users, programmers, but also "data doubles". The individual chapters bridge critical discussions on bias, exclusion, or responsibility with the necessary detail on the contemporary state of information technology. The examples include state-of-the-art applications of machine learning, such as self-driving cars, and large language models such as GPT. The book will be of interest for everyone engaging critically with algorithms, particularly in the social sciences, media studies, STS, political theory, or philosophy. With its broad scope it can serve as a high-level introduction that picks up and builds on more than two decades of critical research on algorithms.

Free Download The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson, Recorded Books
English | 2016 | ISBN: B01AGRRWD4 | 9 hours and 58 minutes | MP3@64 kbps + EPUB | 137 Mb
A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America’s first black presidency, from one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today). Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama’s identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race-as the national traumas of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and Walter Scott have played out during his tenure? What can we learn from Obama’s major race speeches about his approach to racial conflict and the black criticism it provokes?
Dyson explores whether Obama’s use of his own biracialism as a radiant symbol has been driven by the president’s desire to avoid a painful moral reckoning on race. And he sheds light on identity issues within the black power structure, telling the fascinating story of how Obama has spurned traditional black power brokers, significantly reducing their leverage. President Obama’s own voice-from an Oval Office interview granted to Dyson for this book-along with those of Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and Maxine Waters, among others, add unique depth to this profound tour of the nation’s first black presidency.

Free Download Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C1KWZXH2 | 2023 | 16 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 884 MB
Author: Rory Stewart
Narrator: Rory Stewart
From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022’s breakout hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider’s account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament. Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister – before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise. Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow and inadequate our democracy and government had become.

Free Download Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto) (Audiobook)
English | June 21, 2023 | ASIN: B0C8S71G38 | M4B@64 kbps | 5h 33m | 156 MB
Author and Narrator: Micha Frazer-Carroll
Mental health affects us all, and yet it remains elusive as a concept.

Free Download 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBNBP3R4 | 2023 | 12 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Narrator: Patricia Shade
As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with political leaders to create an entirely new approach to television, one that tethered politics to profits. In this timely and provocative book, Kathryn Cramer Brownell argues that cable television itself is not to blame for today’s rampant polarization and scandal politics-the intentional restructuring of television as a political institution is.